Biographies
from
The History of Otsego County, New York
1740-1878
D. Hamilton Hurd
Published by Everts & Fariss, Philadelphia
HUNTINGTON, Samuel Gates - Middlefield
The HUNTINGTON family first found its way to the shores of
the New World through the means of Simon Huntington, who
emigrated from England (where he was born) in the year 1633.
He was attacked with smallpox on the passage, died on shipboard,
and his body was consigned to the ocean's deep. His widow,
Margaret, located at Roxbury, Mass., but finally removed to the
State of Connecticut. Simon (the second generation in this country),
from whom the subject of this sketch is descended, was, probably,
born in England, in 1629; he was married to Sarah, daughter of
Joseph CLARK, of Windsor, Conn., and died at Norwich, June 28,
1706. Samuel (the third generation) was born in Norwich, March 1,
1665, and married to Mary, daughter of William CLARK, in 1686;
he died May 16, 1717. Samuel (the fourth generation) was born at
Norwich, Aug. 28, 1691, and lived to the green old age of ninety-four.
Samuel (the fifth generation) was born in Lebanon, Oct. 16, 1723;
he was married twice, and was a graduate of Yale college; he died
March 20, 1797. Samuel (the sixth generation) was born at
Canterbury, June 4, 1764; he was married three times, and removed
in 1803 to the town of Middlefield, Otsego County, N.Y., where he
died Oct. 8, 1826. Samuel (the seventh generation) was born at
East Haddam, Conn., Jan. 26, 1789, and was married Nov. 3, 1814,
to Jenett Mosly, daughter of Josiah and Esther GATES. He removed
with his father to Otsego County, where his wife died Dec. 5, 1848.
He afterwards married, March 3, 1852, Mrs. Eliza SILLIMAN, and
died September, 1871. Samuel Gates (the eighth generation) was
born in Middlefield, Otsego County, May 28, 1820, and married
Jane H. CHURCH, Sept. 21, 1848. She died June 5, 1851. He
subsequently married Adeline Julia, daughter of Rev. Alvin and
Vilotta PARMALEE, July 20, 1852. His family consisted of four
children, viz., Helen Wilson, born Nov. 27, 1849; Agnes Church,
Jan. 4, 1851; George Mason, Aug 2, 1853; Alice Parmalee, June 25,
1857; all being natives of the town of Middlefield, Otsego County.
Thus we have the genealogy of a family that has lived in this country
for almost two hundred and fifty years. Settling as they did in the
days of the Pilgrim fathers, they have multiplied so that now the
descendants of the old Puritan stock are to be found in every State
of the Union.--
Excerpt from History of Otsego Co., NY, page 191